The city of wonders will be the focus of the Bologna Design Week 2019, which is presenting the initial highlights of the program of events for the international exhibition of design culture in Emilia-Romagna.
For its fifth edition, Bologna Design Week is teaming up once again with Cersaie, the international exhibition promoted by Confindustria Ceramica, to celebrate the week of ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings in the Bologna city centre.
Curated and organized by Enrico Maria Pastorello, general manager, and Elena Vai, creative director, the annual event held at locations throughout the city centre will explore the wonders of Bologna’s creative and architectural heritage. From Sept. 23 to 28, 2019, previews, exhibitions, workshops, competitions, film screenings and guided tours will be held in historic buildings, deconsecrated churches, art galleries and showrooms throughout the city centre. Dedicated to a region renowned for its fine living, the six-day event will explore aspects of design culture and creative industries and their ability to forge new relationships between people and places.
In partnership with the Emilia-Romagna regional government and in cooperation with the Istituzione Bologna Musei, Bologna Design Week will host an exhibition project entitled Esprit Nouveau: le nouvel esprit des couleurs selon Le Corbusier. The event is promoted by Gigacer, a Faenza-based company that has innovated industrial technology and combined it with the local artisanal and artistic expertise in the field of ceramics. Organised with the support of the Fondation Les Couleurs Le Corbusier, the exhibition will explore the sense of color in the work of Le Corbusier, an architect who used colors according to the different emotions he wanted to evoke in users in the interiors of his homes.
The site-specific project will be held in the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, a unique architectural venue and BDW gateway in the Bologna exhibition centre. The model home – a precise replica of the temporary pavilion created by Le Corbusier in 1925 in Paris and faithfully rebuilt in Bologna in 1977 by Giuliano Gresleri and José Oubrerie – will host lessons and meetings with contemporary masters of color and architecture throughout the week.
